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New Tool Eases College Process

The Miami Hurricane | Posted 05.02.2013 | College
The Miami Hurricane

With the College Scorecard, students have a service that wouldn't be provided elsewhere. Even if students research colleges on their own, they are more likely to find information that is skewed, biased or disorganized.

No One Cares Anymore

AP | MARTHA IRVINE | Posted 11.26.2012 | College

ELMHURST, Ill. — What a difference four years can make. In 2008, college campuses were filled with campaign posters and political rallies &ndas...

Can the Next President Put Public Universities Back on Top?

Gene D. Block | Posted 11.21.2012 | College
Gene D. Block

The bottom line is that we all need to be held accountable, but those of us who work in public higher education can't do it alone. America's success is fundamentally connected to the state of our education system.

Obama Still A Hit Among Key Group

AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 10.29.2012 | Politics

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The crowds may be smaller and the candidate grayer, but college towns are still proving to be President Barack Obama's be...

'Half Of My Generation Didn't Get Up And Go To A Job This Morning'

Reuters | Posted 10.28.2012 | College

* Obama seeks to energize campus vote as students start classes * Reminds students of healthcare benefits under Obamacare ...

Obama Going Back To College

AP | JULIE PACE and KEN THOMAS | Posted 10.28.2012 | Politics

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — President Barack Obama, appealing to students who powered his first White House run, swooped onto college campuses Tuesday...

Obama Slamming Romney As Out-Of-Touch

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 10.21.2012 | Politics

COLUMBUS, Ohio — President Barack Obama says deep cuts in college aid that Mitt Romney is set to make would be the moral equivalent of telling y...

Why Does Obama Want To Trademark The G.I. Bill?

AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 06.27.2012 | College

FORT STEWART, Ga. — President Barack Obama reached out to a generation of young soldiers Friday as he added new protections for veterans and mil...

Obama Speaking On Key Issue To Young Voters

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 06.24.2012 | Politics

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Courting college voters, President Barack Obama said Tuesday that Congress needs to keep the cost of college loans from skyr...

Obama Takes On College Costs In An Effort To Woo Young Voters

AP | By BEN FELLER | Posted 04.24.2012 | College

WASHINGTON -- Wooing young voters, President Barack Obama is on a blitz to keep the cost of college loans from soaring for millions of students, takin...

New Plan to Cut College Costs? Been There, Done That

Patrick O'Connor | Posted 05.01.2012 | Detroit
Patrick O'Connor

Asking colleges and states to take on more of the cost of reforms will lead to bigger tuition increases, not smaller ones. Something must be done, but experienced educators will tell you this "new" plan isn't the way to go.

Stop Starving Public Universities and Shrinking the Middle Class

Robert Reich | Posted 04.30.2012 | College
Robert Reich

Santorum needn't worry. America is already making it harder for young people of modest means to attend college. Public higher education is being starved, and the middle class will shrink even more as a result.

Santorum's College-Faith Argument Is Off Base

Posted 02.27.2012 | Politics

The Following post first appeared on FactCheck.org. Rick Santorum is off base when he criticizes college as a place where young people lose the...

Obama Gets Tough On Higher Ed

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 04.22.2012 | College

WASHINGTON — Access to college has been the driving force in federal higher education policy for decades. But the Obama administration is pushin...

KEEP TUITION DOWN!

AP | Posted 01.25.2012 | College

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is proposing to keep college affordable by yanking federal aid from colleges that don't keep tuition down and pro...

Jason Linkins

Ed Henry Would Like To See Obama's College Transcripts, For Some Reason

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.17.2012 | Politics

With Romney's GOP rivals now loudly calling for him to release his tax returns, the logical push-back against President Barack Obama is for the White ...

GOP Sees Opportunity In Key Voting Bloc's Waning Obama Enthusiasm

AP | By MARTHA IRVINE | Posted 11.17.2011 | Politics

CHICAGO -- The young people in the ad look dissatisfied and pouty. Barack Obama's voice and the words "winning the future," from one of his old campai...

Obama Approval Rating Increases Among College Students

Posted 05.31.2011 | College

Endurance we can believe in? According to a new survey from the Harvard Institute of Politics, young adults still overwhelmingly like President Bar...

Meet Obama's Favorite Professor

Posted 05.25.2011 | College

Despite his lofty claim to fame as Barack Obama's favorite professor, Roger Boesche doesn't let the compliment inflate his ego -- or define his teachi...

Obama Expresses Support For College Aid In State Of The Union

Posted 05.25.2011 | College

President Barack Obama pledged support to reestablish America as the global leader in higher education in his State of the Union address last night. ...

Sam Stein

Obama To Young Voters: 'You Can't Sit Out' In 2010

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

In a conference call with college journalists on Monday, President Obama made a direct pitch to the young voters who flocked to his campaign two years...

Obama Stresses Higher Ed In University Of Texas Speech

AP/Huffington Post | BEN FELLER | Posted 05.25.2011 | College

AUSTIN, Texas -- Deep in the land of George W. Bush, President Barack Obama swept through Texas on Monday to gather Democratic cash and votes, poundin...

Obama College Photos To Go On Display (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Photos of President Obama as a college student are rare. But 21 of them are about to be shown publicly. They come from a collection of thirty-six phot...

Obama: The College Years (SLIDESHOW)

Time Magazine | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Time magazine has posted a slideshow of Obama's college years, taken by an aspiring photographer named Lisa Jack, to run with its selection of Obama ...

Sam Stein

Gossip Girl And MoveOn Cut Ad For Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

MoveOn.org released a new television ad on Tuesday that, like some other Democratic-leaning groups this election season, encourages youth to persuade ...